Confirming the successful raids, Andrei Kartapolov from the Russian army vowed to ramp up the pressure, saying: "We will not only continue strikes... We will also increase their intensity."

Speaking at the time of the attacks, in October, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: "Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations.

A Russian jet carries out an air strike in Syriaimage postRussia said it had carried out 20 air strikes in just 24 hours

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions.

"These and other highly exact means of attack in recent days have been used to target objects of Islamic State terrorists.

"Command posts, stores of weapons and oil products, workshops where weapons of suicide bombers are made."

Meanwhile a terrorism expert revealed to Express.co.uk ISIS have vastly exaggerated their military strength and called on Western leaders to launch a co-ordinated fightback which would obliterate the hate group.

Dr Afzal Ashraf said ISIS has become its own worst enemy with its campaign of terror against the West, which has prompted an international backlash...

"What we have to fight for is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the [C]reator."-Adolf Hitler

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."-Goethe

"Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family."-Patrick Buchanan

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.-Edmund Burke

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid Galilee of its Arab population."
-- David Ben-Gurion (Founding Father of the State of Israel and First Israeli Prime Minister), from Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar (May 1948)

Re: End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State'

You guys including those who are from Russia(but not necessarily ethnic Russians) do not understand a Russian character.Nature created Russians with beautiful gray eyes to look quietly at the icy desert of life.

Re: End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State'

Putin talks the talk and walks the walk, ISIS made a big mistake bringing that Russian airliner down.

Go Putin!

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Putin had vowed to 'punish' those responsible for bringing down aRussian jet over the Sinai desert last month, after he confirmed that a bomb was responsible for the crash.
The Russian president claimed that the jet was blown up by a home-made bomb containing 1.5kg of explosives, resulting in the loss of 224 lives.
Shortly after Mr Putin's announcement, Egyptian authorities arrested two airport employees accused of helping ISIS to smuggle the device onto the aircraft.
The Airbus A321 disappeared 23 minutes after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh airport en-route to St Petersburg.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on the Metrojet aircraft which crashed on October 31.

A $50 million reward has been offered for information leading to the capture of the terror cell responsible for the atrocity.
Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB security agency told Russian President Vladimir Putin: 'One can say unambiguously that it was a terror act.
'An improvised bomb with a capacity of up to 1.5 kg of TNT exploded on the fight.
'As a result, the aircraft was torn apart in the air, which explains the large distance over which the pieces of the fuselage of the aircraft have scattered.'

An invasive species is a plant, fungus, animal OR HUMAN species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and which has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy and human health.